to give her a Cerenia pill for an upset tummy. I always thought I had succeeded until I found pills on the floor. My solution: put the 1/2 Cerenia on a tiny plastic spoon, open her mouth, and drop it in. I then close her mouth and rub her throat. It goes down. Must admit the half pill is small and Millie has always been a compliant cat. Should mention she is also nineteen years old.

It was a lot easier than trying to use my fingers. I even waited a minute or two to see if she would spit it back out.

Martini's pill is small too and she started off with half a pill and now it's 3/4 pill, as if cutting it in half wasn't hard enough!

Thank you so much for your suggestion, Polly Hennessey! Blessings to you and Miss Millie!

Other times she just fought me so hard I was afraid she'd have a stroke. Ear goop worked fine. You may want to use disposable gloves or some of those little finger cots to put it in her ear because I didn't have as much luck rubbing it in with the applicator.

I hope this does the trick for Martini.

I will let everyone know how it goes.

So I sure understand!

Years ago I read a report from a woman whose own BP was affected by the goop she was rubbing into her cat's ear because it's a transdermal medication.

I would never have even considered that.

I will have to look into that.

put a little butter on the pill. It'll slide down easier. That did work for a few of the cats I've had. Now I stick to transdermal because I'm older and not so inclined to want to fight it.

She looks like she swallowed the pill but then I find them on the floor later.

I now use peanut butter on the pill.
Most of them actually go down her throat this way.
Sometimes she still tricks me.

She is also a Harry Houdini, is able to escape most fences.

Next time I am not getting a dog who is smarter than I am.

Scout was an escape artist equal to none until I had a really tall fence installed and had barriers put underground so she couldn’t dig out. Ha! So far it’s working.